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To the Editor: A 45-year-old German hospital-laboratory technician spent her holiday in Tanzania in March 1994 under malaria prophylaxis with chloroquine and proguanil (chloroguanide). In October 1994 she had fever and headache. A thick blood smear revealed Plasmodium falciparum. She was treated immediately with halofantrine, which led to the relief of symptoms and clearance of the parasites. In January 1995 falciparum malaria developed again, and the patient was treated with mefloquine. She had her next bout of falciparum malaria in March 1995 and received oral quinine and doxycycline therapy. In August 1995, during the fourth attack, she received quinine . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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